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Foreign desk: After Caracas, Is Havana Next?
Having succeeded in Latin America by capturing Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, President Trump isn’t “content to sit back when more is on the table,” suggests The American Conservative’s Joseph Addington; he’s now “aiming at Havana.”
Trump ordered new tariffs on any nation that “directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil” to Cuba, which wants power imports “to stay afloat.”
Mexico “ended its provision of oil to the island this week,” and Cuba’s “prospects” look “grim.”
But “regime change in Cuba” will require “more aggressive action than simply cutting off the country’s oil.”
With the Maduro raid serving as a “proof of concept” for a “new model” of “low-risk, low-commitment regime-change operations,” it could not be stunning if one thing related is deliberate for Havana.
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Culture critic: Don Lemon’s Despicable Revival
“When Don Lemon and a group of agitators stormed a church in Minneapolis, they so terrorized those inside that a woman broke her arm trying to flee, and children were seen quietly crying,” fumes Sasha Stone on Substack.
“To Don Lemon, this was journalism.” To a grand jury, “he broke the law.”
Yet getting arrested could be “the best” factor to occur to Lemon, whose “YouTube channel was languishing in obscurity.”
Now he, like Jimmy Kimmel, is all of the sudden a “free speech martyr.” Lemon’s “ego was already bigger than Texas” earlier than he “made kids cry” in a church.
In reality, he and Kimmel have been really “two-bit has-beens.” Yet “all they had to do was something so terrible that they crossed a line,” and puff: They get to “pretend they’re heroes.”
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Educator: Make Schools Rigorous Again
“Like the American two-party political system, American education today has two educational models,” explains Auguste Meyrat at The Federalist.
One “is the Progressive style of education rooted in the ideas of John Dewey and his disciples” that’s dedicated to leftist ideology eschewing “traditional academic disciplines and fields of study.”
The different “is a growing network of schools that have developed a classical pedagogy devoted to conserving what is best of the Western tradition.”
In that vein, the Classical Baccalaureate program was created to revive “rigor, coherence, and formation to secondary education.”
If the CB “lives up to its promises and proves to be popular, it will finally reach its potential as a viable alternative to AP and IB” — and schooling reformers “should take heart.”
From the proper: How To Save the Republic
Democrats “have convinced themselves” that “a generational struggle against fascism in the United States” is happening, observes the Washington Examiner, however the “propaganda echo chamber” their elected leaders stay in means they’re “frequently duped by obvious, outright fakery.”
The tales of Renee Good, Liam Conejo Ramos and Alex Pretti have been amplified and hyped by the “pervasive Democratic media bubble” and introduced as “brave” acts of “standing up to fascism,” although in actuality “law enforcement officers have every right to arrest and detain people who obstruct them in their duties,” as a result of “enforcing laws is the essence of ordered liberty.”
“Democrats must abandon inflammatory rhetoric, respect federal authority, and engage in honest debate to preserve the republic they claim to defend.”
Legal beat: Lowering NY’s Auto Insurance Costs
“Rampant fraud and runaway litigation are driving up auto insurance premiums across New York, and billboard attorneys are cashing in,” roars Tom Stebbins at Empire Report.
“Charging hefty fees, wealthy lawyers pad their wallets as families struggle to keep up.” New York’s no-fault insurance coverage system has develop into “a magnet for abuse, rewarding criminals and drunk drivers for creating chaos.”
Though “meant to reduce litigation and court system congestion,” it as an alternative “fuels fraud,” with “no-fault claims accounting for approximately 75%” of all Department of Financial Services fraud studies.
Fortunately, “Gov. Hochul is championing a comprehensive strategy to crack down,” “bring New York’s civil justice system in line with other states” and “provide meaningful cost savings for families.”
Lawmakers “need to back” this “common-sense” reform.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
